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Coronavirus Crisis: Reasons for Hope During These Dark Times

The Practical Leader

In Technology and Cooperation Help Fight the Pandemic Chelsea writes, “The threat from COVID-19 should be taken seriously, but there are reasons for rational optimism even during a pandemic.” Many jurisdictions around the world are declaring states of emergency, closing their borders, and restricting travel.

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China’s Economy, in Six Charts

Harvard Business Review

percentage points in 2003-2012. Since China opened up, the nation has travelled through different stages of development. That growth was driven largely by the increased use of information technology in customer analysis and supply chain optimization. China, too, needs more technological innovation. It contributed 1.4

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The Future of Business Is Social: Seven Principles That Lead to.

Strategy Driven

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. A community of travelers help us select hotels that meet our personal preferences thanks to Trip Advisor. Open Table has brought together a nation of diners who connect online.

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Yelp is Leaving Chains Behind

Harvard Business Review

With a quick look at a smartphone, a traveler can easily find a great local store or restaurant option nearby. It makes sense that this technology would help independents gain business — and new data shows that for restaurants, at least, the intuition is correct.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

Traveling down the path set by the service academies, it may well be that the most effective people in any organization are those who are equally adept playing both leadership and followership roles. It may well be that some Self-Starters lack the equipment, technology, or funding needed to perform well and have simply given up.

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What the Mission to Mars Shows About India’s Innovators

Harvard Business Review

Reflecting on the achievement, the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi remarked : “India had travelled through space to Mars at a cost of 7 cents per kilometer, much cheaper than travelling a kilometer in Ahmedabad,” Gujarat’s biggest city from which Narendra Modi hails. ISRO’s success is best characterized as frugal engineering.

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Five Mistakes to Avoid When Managing Digital Teams

Harvard Business Review

Digital, social, and mobile technologies are still new enough that there’s a lot that’s measured as a binary (a checkbox for responsive design, for example) or subjectively (that new app looks great). In 2003, blogging was still new in the mainstream, and mistrusted by corporations wedded to large CMS installs.

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